Matt Damon movie quotes

Matt Damon movie quotes, phrases and lines
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Matt Damon quotes
  • - Bartleby: One of the last sacred promises imparted to Peter, the first Pope, by the Son of God before He left was... "Whatever you hold true on earth..."...
    - Loki: "I'll hold true in heaven".
    - Bartleby: It's dogmatic law. The Catholic Church says it's so, God must adhere, this thing has a papal sanction...
    - Loki: Let it never be said that... (continue)
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    Ben Affleck - Bartleby
    Matt Damon - Loki
    [Tag:obsession, rules]
  • “- Jason Bourne: Who am I?
    - Conklin: You're U.S. Government property. You're a malfunctioning $30 million weapon. You're a total goddamn catastrophe, and by God, if it kills me, you're going to tell me how this happened.”

    Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
    Chris Cooper - Conklin
  • “- Tom Ripley: Nothing is more naked than your handwriting. See how nothing's quite touching the line? That's vanity.
    - Dickie Greenleaf: Well, we certainly know that that's true.”

    Matt Damon - Tom Ripley
    Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf
    [Tag:vanity, writing]
  • “Whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head? You never meet anybody who thinks they're a bad person”
    Matt Damon - Tom Ripley
  • - Will Hunting: [telling about his foster father] He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the table. Just say: “choose”.
    - Sean Maguire: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
    - Will Hunting: I used to go with the wrench.
    - Sean: Why the wrench?
    - Will Hunting: Cause fuck him, that's why.

    Matt Damon - Will Hunting
    Robin Williams - Sean Maguire
    [Tag:abuse, violence]
  • “A wiser horse might have turned and run, but I wanted to know what strange creatures were here.”

    Matt Damon - Spirit
    [Tag:curiosity, wisdom]
  • “- Mike McDermott: I watch the cards but I also watch the player react to the cards. That's how I knew the DA made his two pair and judge Kaplan missed the flush, I was watching their eyes when they checked their river cards, their faces tell you everything.
    - Abe Petrovsky: [confused] You watch the man? I never knew you had to calculate so much...” (continue)
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    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
    Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky
    [Tag:cards, seeing]
  • - Worm: You know what always cheers me up, when I'm feeling shitty?
    - Mike McDermott: No, what's that?
    - Worm: Rolled up aces over kings. Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them. Playing all-night high-limit Hold'em at the Taj, "where the sand turns to gold". Stacks and towers of checks I can't even see over.

    Edward Norton - Worm
    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
    [Tag:gambling, sadness]
  • “- Nun: The way you put it... I never really thought about it like that before. What have I been doing with my life? What am I...
    - Loki: Yeah, I know. Listen, my advice to you: you take this money that you've been collecting for your parish, go get yourself a nice dress, you know? Fix yourself up. Find some man, find some woman, that you can...” (continue)
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    Betty Aberlin - Nun
    Matt Damon - Loki
    [Tag:life, living, vocation]
  • In "Confessions of a Winning Poker Player", Jack King said, "Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career". It seems true to me, cause walking in here, I can hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can't stop thinking of how... (continue)(continue reading)
    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
  • “Lacey once asked me if I though God looks out for people. I guess he does. I say He's just about got to. I don't believe we'd make it a day, otherwise.”
    Matt Damon - John Grady Cole
    [Tag:god, helping, people]
  • “- Bartleby: What work did you do? You lit a few fires.
    - Loki: I rained down sulphur, man, there's a subtle difference.
    - Bartleby: Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
    - Loki: Hey, you know, fuck you, man. Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can...” (continue)
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    Ben Affleck - Bartleby
    Matt Damon - Loki
    [Tag:fire, genocide, job]
  • - Nun: Let me get this straight: you don't believe in God because of "Alice in Wonderland"?
    - Loki: No, "Through the Looking Glass".

    Betty Aberlin - Nun
    Matt Damon - Loki
  • “I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
    Matt Damon - Tom Ripley
    [Tag:self-esteem]
  • “- Adele Invergordon: Was there something about me that you particularly missed? Something that I can feel gratified about depriving you all these years?
    - Rannulph Junuh: I liked the way we danced.”

    Charlize Theron - Adele Invergordon
    Matt Damon - Rannulph Junuh
    [Tag:dancing, memory, past]
  • “Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker every year? What, are they the luckiest guys in Las Vegas? It's a skill game Jo.”

    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
    [Tag:ability, gambling]
  • Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions out of, out of fear of some, some intangible parent figure who, who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says, and says, "Do it... do it and I'll fuckin' spank you".
    Matt Damon - Loki
  • Everyday I wake up and it's still the present. The same grimy, boring present. I don't think this "future" thing of yours exists.
    Matt Damon - Cale Tucker
    [Tag:future, present]
  • “- Worm: I guess the sayings' true. In the poker game of life, women are the rake man. They are the fuckin' rake.
    - Mike McDermott: What the fuck are you talkin' about. What saying?
    - Worm: I don't know. There ought to be one though.”

    Edward Norton - Worm
    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
    [Tag:game, mottoes, women]
  • “First prize at the World Series of Poker is a million bucks. Does it have my name on it? I don't know. But, I'm gonna find out.”
    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
    [Tag:cards, game, winning]
  • “- Mike McDermott: What happened?
    - Worm: Nothing, she closed her legs too fast!”

    Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
    Edward Norton - Worm
    [Tag:blood, wound]
  • “- Skylar: What if I said I wouldn't have sex with you again until I got to meet your friends. What would you say?
    - Will Hunting: I'd say it's 4:30 in the morning. They're probably up.”

    Minnie Driver - Skylar
    Matt Damon - Will Hunting
    [Tag:sex]
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